Venus in the Afternoon (Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Short Fiction)

by Tehila Lieberman

University of North Texas Press

$14.95 List Price

Saturday, November 10

7:00pm

Katherine Anne Porter Prize Reading -Short Fiction Award Winners

Now in it's twelfth year, the Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Short Fiction is one of the more prestigious short story collection prizes available to fiction authors. Three recent winners, Tehila Lieberman (2012), Peter Brown (2010) and Michael Hyde (2005) share selections from their winning collections.…

Now in it's twelfth year, the Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Short Fiction is one of the more prestigious short story collection prizes available to fiction authors. Three recent winners, Tehila Lieberman (2012), Peter Brown (2010) and Michael Hyde (2005) share selections from their winning collections. The Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Short Fiction winners present a joint reading!

Wednesday, March 21

7:00pm

Four Way Books Spring Reading

Michael Collins’ poems have received Pushcart Prize nominations and appeared in more than 70 journals and magazines. He is also the author of the chapbooks How to Sing when People Cut off your Head and Leave it Floating in the Water and Harbor Mandala and the full-length collections Psalmandala and…

Michael Collins’ poems have received Pushcart Prize nominations and appeared in more than 70 journals and magazines. He is also the author of the chapbooks How to Sing when People Cut off your Head and Leave it Floating in the Water and Harbor Mandala and the full-length collections Psalmandala and Appearances. He teaches creative and expository writing at New York University and the Hudson Valley Writers’ Center and is the Director of Studies at Why There Are Words Press and curator of the New York City branch of the national Why There Are Words Reading Series. Visit notthatmichaelcollins.com for more.

Carol Moldaw is an award-winning author of one novel and six books of poetry, including her most recent collection Beauty Refracted (Four Way Books, March 2018). The recipient of an NEA Creative Writing Fellowship in Poetry, a Pushcart Prize, as well as other honors, Moldaw received her M.A. in Creative Writing from Boston University. She has taught in many writing programs and conferences, and in the spring of 2011 served as the Louis D. Rubin, Jr., Writer-in-Residence at Hollins University. Currently Moldaw teaches privately and lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico with her husband and daughter.

Ben Purkert’s debut poetry collection For the Love of Endings was published by Four Way Books in March 2018. He teaches creative writing at Rutgers New Brunswick. His poems and essays have appeared in Agni, Boston Review, Guernica, Kenyon Review, The New Yorker, Ploughshares, and elsewhere. He holds degrees from Harvard and NYU, where he was a New York Times Fellow.

Valerie Wallace’s debut poetry collection House of McQueen, winner of the Four Way Books Intro Prize, selected by Vievee Francis, was published by Four Way Books in March 2018. She is also the author of the chapbook The Dictators’ Guide to Good Housekeeping (dancing girl press 2011). Her work was chosen by Margaret Atwood for the 2012 Atty Award, and she has received an Illinois Arts Council Literary Award and the San Miguel de Allende Writers Conference Award in Poetry. She earned her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is Associate Director, Communications for the project Virtue, Happiness, & the Meaning of Life at the University of Chicago and teaches courses and workshops throughout the Chicago area. valeriewallace.net.